Already the 10th dead... "Experience in a small tank is abusive"

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Another dolphin died at Geoje Sea World, an experience facility that allows tourists to touch and ride dolphins.

Ten animals have died in the six years since the opening, and criticism of abuse is rising.

This is KNN reporter Pyo Joong-gyu.

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Beluga, a beluga, is the dolphin that died at Geoje Sea World.

The wild life span is over 35 years, and the dolphins that died this time are estimated to be around 10 years old.

There are 10 dolphins that have died at Geoje Sea World so far.

Most of them are pneumonia or sepsis, and they have died every year for six years after opening.

[Cho Hee-kyung/CEO of Animal Freedom Solidarity: This is the expected result.

When looking at the breeding environment and the stress applied to dolphins, I think it is a fixed procedure for dying from sepsis.]

Last year alone, four dolphins died in Korea, and the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries and Gyeongnam Province even checked the Sea World Aquarium.

When it opened in 2014, there were only 20 dolphins left.

Geoje Sea World has been controversial since the beginning of its opening that the experience of touching a small tank and human hands is an animal abuse.

Geoje Sea World said that there is no official position on the company and that the experience program is operating normally.

However, while the government is also pushing for a ban on the experience in response to a national petition demanding the end of the experience, the endangered species Beluga is also killed, and the controversy over animal cruelty at Geoje Sea World is spreading.

(Video coverage: Jung Chang-wook KNN)